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About the database: In all listings clicking on the photo will open a page for the site with a larger photo. The listings are drawn mainly from scientific journals and will not include the most recently discovered minor sites. There is comprehensive coverage of stone circles, stone rows and menhirs. Listings for cists and cairn circles should cover most of the better known sites. There are only partial entries for round cairns, settlements, pounds and none for reaves. For listings of specific types of monument click on Resources in the menu above. Corrections, or any feedback or suggestions are very welcome, email: info@dartmoorwalks.org.uk.

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Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Walk: The Neolithic tombs of Cuckoo Ball & Corringdon BallOS Map:SX 65838 59189NMR record:SX 65 NE 19HER record:2888Megalithic Portal:44532The Stone Rows of GB:Butterdon EastPMD:Beacon PlainShortName: SS:BeaconPlainButler map: 53.8Butler Vol 5: p.216 & Fig.150DPD page: 79Notes: "One of two large granite blocks situated some 500 meters east of Hangershell Rocks. May be fallen standing stones or stones brought to the site but never erected. This western stone lies 55 meters from the other and tapers towards its northern end. Between the two are traces of two other stones, and the fact that they form a straight line lends weight to the argument that they are fallen menhirs. This western stone was excavated in august 1968, and groups of small stones were found at the broad end and along the w side as if to receive the stone when it was erected." For more on that see coverage on the SRGB and on PMD. See also HER record MDV2883.Nearby sites:SX65845919Distance: 0.96km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Walk: The Neolithic tombs of Cuckoo Ball & Corringdon BallOS Map:SX 65886 59210NMR record:SX 65 NE 19HER record:2883Megalithic Portal:44532The Stone Rows of GB:Butterdon EastPMD:Beacon PlainShortName: SS:Beacon Pl2Butler map: 53.8Butler Vol 5: p.216 & Fig.150DPD page: 79Notes: "There are two possible menhirs, on Beacon Plain, 500 yards east of Hangershell Rock. The more easterly stone measures 18 feet 4 inches in length. The other stone lies 57 yards away on a bearing 26 degrees south of west. It is 18 feet in length, 5 feet 6 inches wide at one end, and tapers to a blunt point. The stones are completely isolated on a grass moor, and have none of the characteristics of surface boulders. If they were menhirs they are the largest known on Dartmoor." There are suggestions these two stones are ends of a short stone row with a smaller stone in between. For more on that see coverage on the SRGB and on PMD. See also HER record MDV2888.Nearby sites:SX65895921Distance: 0.98km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Site: Burford Down stone row and cairnsOS Map:SX 63695 60165NMR record:SX 66 SW 57HER record:4333Megalithic Portal:1463The Stone Rows of GB:Burford DownPMD:Burford Down Stone RowShortName: SR:Burford DnButler map: 54.17DPD page: 70Notes: "This single stone row on a slight north slope extends from a crest at 260m OD to a col at 255m OD. It can be traced from its south terminal, marked by a cairn, at SX 63706017 for 336m, bearing 1o, to a possible blocking stone at SX 63706051 and of different character for a further 120m to SX63706062. The recumbent stone, considered ... to be the north terminal lies yet a further 47m distant at SX 63706067." See also: Sea Views at Burford DownNearby sites:SX63706017Distance: 1.52km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Walk: The Neolithic tombs of Cuckoo Ball & Corringdon BallOS Map:SX 64747 59301NMR record:SX 65 NW 37HER record:13095Megalithic Portal:45565PMD:Butterbrook Standing StoneAlternate name: Butterbrook Standing StoneShortName: SS:Butter BrNotes: A standing-stone, possibly prehistoric, near Butter Brook (near Harford) is 2.03m long and has a standing height of 1.77m. The stone is located towards the north of the eastern side of the plantation around Butterbrook reservoir. The stone is easy to approach from the dry ground to the south but just beyond the stone to the north is marshland. [Entry no. 70 in An archaeological check-list for Harford, Devon Archaeological Society/DCRA publications no. 11 (1982)]Nearby sites:SX64755930Distance: 0.75km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Walk: The Neolithic tombs of Cuckoo Ball & Corringdon BallOS Map:SX 65200 59900NMR record:SX 65 NE 71HER record:13166Megalithic Portal:1970The Stone Rows of GB:Butterbrook 2PMD:Butter Brook 2 Stone RowAlternate name: Butterbrook 1 Stone RowShortName: SR:Butter Br NButler map: 53.11DPD page: 78Notes: Continued notes from Butter Brook S. "At 73 metres from the terminal there is a single orthostat 0.5 metre high, standing 3.25 metres off centre south from the projection of the rows, at the edge of a small clitter of broken stones. A third row, irregularly spaced and not showing much above ground,
meets the double section of the rows at an angle of about 10o on the north-west side, extending westward to about level with the terminal. Visual projection east-ward along the third row appears to be in line with the orthostat". Lethbridge 78 Rows 4/5 diagram p.77. Formerly listed as Butter Brook 2.Nearby sites:SX65205990Distance: 0km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Walk: The Neolithic tombs of Cuckoo Ball & Corringdon BallOS Map:SX 65100 59900NMR record:SX 65 NE 71HER record:13166Megalithic Portal:1971The Stone Rows of GB:Butterbrook 1PMD:Butter Brook 1 Stone RowAlternate name: Butterbrook 2 Stone RowShortName: SR:Butter Br SButler map: 53.11DPD page: 78Notes: "A stone row about 42 metres long is situated on south sloping ground at SX 65145995, just north of the marshy Butterbrook valley. It is aligned south south west/north north east, and terminates at the south end in a hollow-centred ring of turf and stones of 2.5 metres diameter east/west, 3.2 metres north/south. The first stone in the row is 10.35 metres from the centre of the terminal, thereafter the spacing becomes about 3 metres. The maximum height of the stones is 0.67 metre. The row becomes double for about 12.5 metres (four to five pairs of stones), with a distance of 0.4 to 0.5 metre between rows, after which only the second row appears to continue." Lethbridge p.78 Rows 4/5 diagram p.77. Formerly listed as Butter Brook 1Nearby sites:SX65105990Distance: 0.1km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Walk: The Neolithic tombs of Cuckoo Ball & Corringdon BallOS Map:SX 66012 58573NMR record:SX 65 NE 4HER record:2886Megalithic Portal:31698PMD:Butterdon Long CairnAlternate name: Butterdon Hill chambered cairn Chambered TombShortName: NT:ButterdonButler map: 53.15Butler Vol 5: p.155Grinsell: A:UGB 2Notes: "The mound is situated on a slight south-east slope at 1050 ft O.D. It is 25 metres long, orientated north-south, is 16.0 metres wide and 0.9 metre high at the north end and 10.0 metres wide and 0.7 metre high at the south end. There are no visible side ditches. The construction is of earth and small stones but extensive pillaging and/or excavation has exposed a number of large upright and some displaced stones. The mound is certainly a long barrow."Nearby sites:SX66015857Distance: 1.56km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Walk: The Erme East stone rowsOS Map:SX 65629 58814NMR record:SX 65 NE 17HER record:2988Megalithic Portal:556The Stone Rows of GB:Butterdon HillPMD:Butterdon Stone RowAlternate name: Butterdon Hill Row Stone RowShortName: SR:ButterdonButler map: 53.8DPD page: 77Notes: "The northern part of the Butterdon stone row has been surveyed from Hangershell Rocks cairn at SX 65645941 to Hobajons Cross at SX 65506045." and "For the 1050m of this part the majority of the several hundred stones are from 0.1m to 0.4m high and form an irregular line. There is a gap of 70.0m on the north side of Hangershell but otherwise the row is fairly continuous. The area is not entirely free of natural surface stones and while some can be immediately discounted occasionally there is a short double or triple row where all the stones are alike and these which formed the original row cannot now be determined. Barely two dozen stones are 0.5m high or higher, Hobajons Cross at 1.2m being the highest. It is possible that this was at some stage a terminal stone since it appears to have cup marks on the south face and the extension onwards, to the Longstone, is on an entirely different alignment." Lethbridge Row 1 diagram p.77.Nearby sites:SX65635881Distance: 1.17km

OS Map:SX 65601 58766NMR record:SX 65 NE 26HER record:2895Megalithic Portal:10002Alternate name: Butterdon Hill Summit 5 CairnShortName: CN:Butterdon HButler map: 53.9.5Butler Vol 5: p.160Grinsell: HAR 17Notes: "The northernmost of several cairns near the summit of Butterdon Hill lies approximately 200 feet south-south-east (sic) from the retaining circle at the end of the stone row (SX 65 NE 17). There are clear remains of a marginal wall on the eastern circumference
of this cairn; whether it is an original feature is not known but there is no apparent reason why it should have been added later. A large cairn, 27 metres in diameter, 3.3 metres high. The barrow has an apparent berm, but this may not have been an original
characteristic."

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Walk: The Erme East stone rowsOS Map:SX 65634 58816NMR record:SX 65 NE 66HER record:2897Megalithic Portal:722PMD:Butterdon RowAlternate name: Butterdon Hill stone row Encircled CairnShortName: EC:ButterdonButler map: 53.8.1DPD page: 78Grinsell: HAR 16Turner: F8Notes: Turner F8. A low cairn within a retaining circle of stones is situated at SX65635881, at the south end of the Butterdon stone row (SX 65 NE 17), with which it is associated. The circle is 11 metres in diameter, and consists of twelve stones, all now recumbent, although when Worth wrote in 1941, one was erect and three were leaning. Some of the stones are unusually large. The cairn is 9 metres in diameter by 0.3 metre high, with a hollow in the centre. Radcliffe reports: Mike Brown says the row "terminates in a small kistvaen" at its southern end. Hemery says the cist "has been removed". Lethbridge p.78 Row 1 diagram p.77.Nearby sites:SX65635882Distance: 1.16km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Site: Corringdon Ball Chambered Tomb & Stone RowsOS Map:SX 66661 61206NMR record:SX 66 SE 43HER record:5656Megalithic Portal:1856The Stone Rows of GB:Corringdon Ball NorthPMD:Corringdon Ball A Stone RowAlternate name: Corringdon Ball North Stone RowShortName: SR:CorringdonNButler map: 56.8.2DPD page: 82Notes: "A single stone row, length 157 metres, spacing 1.0 metres, starting on the east with a cairn, diameter 6.7 metres, previously opened. The first stone of the row lies 18 metres west of the cairn's centre; there has been considerable robbery for the benefit of modern stone walls. The row clearly extends for 157 metres from the centre of the cairn, but with long intervals between the last stones. The stones are small, the highest being 635 millimetres." See also entry for Corringdon Ball Row B. p.82Nearby sites:SX66666121Distance: 1.96km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Site: Corringdon Ball Chambered Tomb & Stone RowsOS Map:SX 66684 61205NMR record:SX 66 SE 43HER record:5655Megalithic Portal:1857The Stone Rows of GB:Corringdon Ball SouthPMD:Corringdon Ball B Stone RowAlternate name: Corringdon Ball South Stone RowShortName: SR:CorringdonSButler map: 56.8.1DPD page: 82Notes: "Corringdon ball stone rows. Six or seven rows of small stones approximately 75m long, terminating at the east end in a small semi-circular stone setting of five stones, none more than 500mm high, and the alignments are irregular - they run along the contours. Situated on the open moor between the east and west glaze brooks. A complicated set of stones which can only be aligned into rows by exact survey. The direction of the rows is approximately south west". Described by R H Worth as two triple rows B & C. See also HER 14802 (Corringdon Ball B).Nearby sites:SX66686121Distance: 1.98km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Walk: The Erme East stone rowsOS Map:SX 65733 60429NMR record:SX 66 SE 59HER record:5659Megalithic Portal:1952The Stone Rows of GB:Glasscombe Ball NorthPMD:Glasscombe Ball Stone RowAlternate name: Glasscombe Ball N Stone RowShortName: SR:GlassBall NButler map: 56.13DPD page: 78Notes: "A single stone row on the northern verge of Glasscombe Ball lies a little west of north from the row near Spurrell's Cross (SX 65 NE 16) and about a third of a mile from it" ... "A stone row extending between two cairns. The north-east cairn is 0.6m high and is now elongated north-west to south-east to 6.0m. by 4.0m, and is turf-covered. The south-west cairn, 4.0m. in diameter and 0.8m. high is of close-packed stones and turf-covered." Lethbridge p.78, diagram p.77 Row 2Nearby sites:SX65736043Distance: 0.75km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Walk: The Erme East stone rowsOS Map:SX 66100 60802NMR record:SX 66 SE 49HER record:49561Megalithic Portal:1951PMD:Glasscombe Corner Stone RowAlternate name: Glasscombe Corner stone row Cairn CircleShortName: CC:GlasscombeButler map: 56.12Grinsell: UGB 5Turner: G28Notes: Turner Stone Circle G28. Lower end of stone row. "A stone row, 300 yds S 41o W from Glasscombe Corner. The southern 368 feet are a double row and the northern 212 feet 6 inches a single row. The northern part has lost no stones and the change from double to single is abrupt and complete. At the S.W. end are the remains of a cairn and at the NE. end is a retaining circle with many of the stones fallen. It would appear thus that there was a grave at either end of the row. "Nearby sites:SX66106080Distance: 1.27km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Walk: The Neolithic tombs of Cuckoo Ball & Corringdon BallOS Map:SX 64370 60480NMR record:SX 66 SW 53HER record:4354Megalithic Portal:45580ShortName: ES:Lower PilesNotes: "Within the newtake known as lower piles. A group of seven huts near the south east corner of the enclosed land. All now composed of fairly small stones the walls appearing as thick banks of stone and turf, not high, but spreading to a width of 1.8m or more. The diameters vary from c 9.20 to c 12.20m outside measurements. Only one hut has a well defined entrance, this is on the south east side of the circle."Nearby sites:SX64376048Distance: 1.01km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Site: Piles Hill Double Stone Row & CairnsOS Map:SX 65433 60746NMR record:SX 66 SE 50HER record:5653Megalithic Portal:10003PMD:Piles Hill Standing StoneShortName: SS:Piles HillButler map: 53.8DPD page: 77Notes: The fallen menhir on Piles Hill: "The 'Longstone' is a block of very coarse-grained pinkish granite. It is now 2.5m long and of rough rectangular section tapering from a base formerly about 0.4m. by 0.7m. which has been squared and snapped by drilling. The stone lies in a northwest to southeast direction. To its northeast side there is a boundary stone erected in 1803 and shaped by drilling. It is of identical stone and appears to have been fashioned from the 'Longstone' which would therefore have originally been some 4.5m long." Lethbridge p.77Nearby sites:SX65436074Distance: 0.87km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Site: Piles Hill Double Stone Row & CairnsOS Map:SX 65016 61113NMR record:SX 66 SE 86HER record:5662Megalithic Portal:2080The Stone Rows of GB:Piles HillPMD:Piles Hill Stone RowShortName: SR:Piles HillButler map: 54.19DPD page: 74Notes: "The double stone row formed by 139 stones, 7 of which lean; the others are either stumps with drill marks, cleanly snapped off stones, or recumbent posts, whole or split by drilling. Some 30 stones exceed 2.0m. in length with a maximum of 3.0m. A few take the form of slabs or boulders but the majority are of post-type up to 0.6m. square in section, with an angled top created by a single 'chamfer'. The rows in the main alignment are from 21.0m. to 30.0m. apart and within them the gaps between stones vary from 3.0m. to 30.0m. At each end the rows are close, 12.0m. to 17.0m. apart with fewer large gaps between stones". Lethbridge pp.74-6, diagram p.74.Nearby sites:SX65026111Distance: 1.22km

OS Map:SX 66679 59981NMR record:SX 65 NE 14HER record:2913Megalithic Portal:45573ShortName: ES:Scad BrookDPD page: 81Notes: Sub-circular enclosure approximately 1.25 hectares in area containing eleven hut circles ranging from 3.5 metres to 10 metres in diameter, with entrances facing south-east and many of the walls standing up to a metre high. The most complete hut has been excavated and re-instated with walls faced with orthostats and an entrance with jambs. Lethbridge p.81Nearby sites:SX66685998Distance: 1.48km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Walk: The Erme East stone rowsOS Map:SX 65846 59856NMR record:SX 65 NE 16HER record:2890Megalithic Portal:2137The Stone Rows of GB:Spurrells CrossPMD:Spurrells Cross Stone RowShortName: SR:Spurrells XButler map: 53.10DPD page: 78Notes: "The row has apparently been double, but since only seven stones still stand, which together with six sunken stones form the fixed points now determinable, it is difficult to ascertain the original spacing. The lines were probably about 3 feet 6 inches apart and the spacing between the stones about 3 feet. The length of the row is 370 feet as measured from the centre of the cairn and the direction of length is N 20o W. The largest standing stone is 2 feet in height. The cairn, at the south end of the row is 50 feet in diameter with only two stones remaining of the retaining circle". Lethbridge p.78, diagram p.77 Row 3Nearby sites:SX65855986Distance: 0.65km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Site: Corringdon Ball Chambered Tomb & Stone RowsOS Map:SX 66360 61260NMR record:SX 66 SE 114HER record:5692Megalithic Portal:45594ShortName: NE:Upper GlazeButler Vol 5: p.155Notes: A rectangular enclosure not far from Corringdon Ball chambered tomb measuring 112m by 34m that can be seen clearly on aerial and satellite photos of the area. The walls are up to 1.5m thick and 0.3m high, and have been entirely destroyed on the east and north-west sides. There is no obvious entrance and the interior is empty of any structure. According to Butler the east to west orientation of the long axis could suggest a mortuary enclosure of mid-neolithic date (Vol 5 pp.155-6).Nearby sites:SX66366126Distance: 1.79km